About Us

Actipro Software
is a leading provider of .NET user interface controls for the WPF, UWP, Silverlight, and WinForms frameworks,
and is most well-known for their SyntaxEditor syntax-highlighting code editor control.

We'd like to announce that the Windows 10 rewrite of Code Writer, our free text and code editor app for the Windows platform, is now available on the Windows Store for all Windows 10 users running Fall Creators Update or later.

Code Writer makes a perfect replacement for Notepad and other quick edit apps.

Reimagined Windows 10 Design

For the 3.0 version, we rebuilt the entire user interface of the app from scratch for Windows 10. While our older v2.6 UI was great as a full screen Windows 8 app, v3.0 was made with windowed usage in mind, and delivers a much more modern interface that is a pleasure to work in. It also makes heavy use of advanced UI features like acrylic and animations.

The new design still maintains a color bond with file types (as above where the C# file shows green in the status bar).

The list of currently-open documents is displayed in the Explorer side bar. New documents can quickly be created there, and other existing documents can be opened.

Another new concept in v3.0 is a command palette. This popup allows you to quickly type a portion of a command you're looking for, and the list narrows as you type. Press Enter to execute the selected command.

The app is minimalist in nature, and while it does feature a side bar, the side bar can be collapsed by pressing the unpin button. This affords a distraction-free environment while you edit text/code.

Summary

If you have the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update or later, download Code Writer for free from the Windows Store today to check out v3.0 and all it has to offer. The new redesign has been a labor of love that has been in development for many months. We're very pleased to get it out into your hands as a showcase of what you can do with Actipro's Universal Windows Controls. Enjoy!

If you are a Universal Windows app developer, you can download a free evaluation of our Universal Windows Controls to use in your own apps. Code Writer makes use of our SyntaxEditor, Docking/MDI, PropertyGrid, and Editors controls. SyntaxEditor is of particular interest because it lets you add advanced code and text editing to your own apps.